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Summit

View more presentations from joycevalenza.

List #1 How not to get kicked off the island.

Kelly Brannock's Media Center Survivor

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List #2 Essential Competencies for Modern Practice

from Richard Byrne



Google for Teachers -

from Kelly Hines

Major portals and some articles:

• WebTools4U2Use (Donna Baumbach)
• NewToolsWorkshop (Joyce)
• AASL's Best Web Sites for Teaching and Learning
• Helene Blowers' Learning 2.0
• California School Library Learning 2.0
• Things that Keep Us Up at Night (with Doug Johnson). School Library Journal, 1 Oct. 2009.
  
• 14 Ways K–12 Librarians Can Teach Social Media Tech & Learning, 21 Sept. 2009.

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 View more presentations from Jane Hart.

1. On Web presence:

• March 1 TLCafe Session Archive
• SchoolLibraryWebsites
• SchoolLibraries.net
• Springfield Township Virtual Library
• OnlineLessons
• Research guide
• Style Guide
• Art gallery
• Pics of SpringfieldLife
• Annual Report
• Mission
• Library Calendar
• Genre Wordles
• DistanceOpportunities
• Prerequisite summer reading
• ebook pathfinder
• PowerPoint Reform Tools
• Mind Mapping, timelining, graphing
• Polling tools
• Interactive calendars
• NewToolsWorkshop: On Widgets
• ALA Smackdown on Virtual Libraries
  
  

Building Tools

• GoogleSites
• GoogleDocs
• GoogleForms
• GoogleDocsTemplates

Wikis (the killer app!)

• Wikispaces for Teachers (Joyce's pick)
• PB Wiki For Education
• MediaWiki
• Wikia
• Tiddlywiki
• Wet Paint
• Wiki.com (for searching wikispace)
• Weebly for Education (websites and blogs for classes)
• Webs (create a website for free)
• Ubidesk (online collaboration workspace for students)

Personal Information Portals (building tools)

• NetVibes
• PageFlakes
• iGoogle
• LibGuides
• Knowledge Building Centers (Loertscher)
• Buffy's students on their Netvibes portals

Blogs

• Edublogs.org (Joyce's pick)
• David Warlick's Blogmeister
• 21Classes
• Blogger
• LiveJournal
• Thingamablog
• Lyceum
• Wordpress
• SchoolRack (free blogs and web pages)
• Weebly for Education

Flickr for student galleries and library and school events
Meebo for Ask A Librarian service

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2. On rethinking intellectual property, ethics, safety

• Creative Commons
• Copyright Friendly Images and Sound
• Copyright Confusion Wiki
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
• Tool for Reasoning Fair Use
• Copyright Advisory Network
• Interpretations of the Library Bill of Rights (revised)
• Fair Use and InfoEthics (NewToolsWorkshop)>
• That's Not Cool
• Larry Magid on Facebook's Privacy Settings
• Pipl (for searching your profiles)
• People Search Tools
• 123 People.com
• Edubeacon: Digital Citizenship, not just for children
• 5 Steps to Stay Safe and Private on Facebook
• Facebook's New Privacy Settings (EFF)
• Common Craft: Protecting Reputations Online
• Ideas for making a purposeful and professional digital footprint

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3. Retool search and research

Beyond Google - 15 Tools and Strategies for Improving Your Web Search Results -

• Pathfinders
• Search tools
• Google Search Options
• GoogleCustomSearch
• Search Poster
• Search for video
• KidSearch
• KidSearch2
• KidVideoSearch
• Kid Reference
• Search Tools (NewTools)
• VideoSearch

Beyond Google - 15 Tools and Strategies for Improving Your Web Search Results

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4. Rethink collection

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5. Learn to communicate research and tell digital stories:

NewToolsWorkshop Digital Storytelling
50 Ways to Tell a Story (Alan Levine--CogDogRoo fabulous list of tools and examples!) A must see!
The Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book
Digital Storytelling How-to-Guide (Silvia Rosenthal Talisano)

• ed.VoiceThread.com
• Animoto.com
• PhotoStory
• Mixbook
• VoiceThread
• Windows Movie Maker
• Wordle
• Glogster.edu
• Fotobabble
• iMovie (Mac)
• GarageBand (Mac)
• WritingTools
• Video Tools
• Avatar Making
• Podcasting
• Cartoon Generators
• 20 Ways to Use Comics in the Classroom

Tap into Comics in the Classroom

6. Explore reading 2.0

• Skype an Author Network
• AASL Smackdown on Reading Promotion
• NECC Smackdown on Reading Promotion
• BookLeads
• Reading 2.0 Wiki
• Paperback Swap
• Free Reader'sTheaterScripts at HaveFunTeaching.com
• //CSLA: Advocacy Buttons//

Marianne Wallace
Book-related social networking

• Google Books
• Shelfari
• GoodReads
• BigUniverse
• LibraryThing
  • Children's Literature @ Library Thing
  • LibraryThing for Libraries (add tags and recommendations to your OPAC)>>
• VuFind (your OPAC meets 2.0)

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7. On the importance of networking and professional learning:

• Nings, Social Networking, PLNs
• TL Virtual Cafe
• TeacherLibrarianNing
• Ning.com
• Classroom20Ning
• 21st Century Librarians
• English Companion
• Future of Education
• NCTE Conference Ning
• SLJ Summit Ning
• NLConnect (November Learning)
• VoiceThreadForEducatorsNing
• NECC Ning
• Youth Services Ning
• ArtSnacks
• WebTools4U2Use on Social Networking
• Examples of Classroom Nings
• 15 Ways to Retool Yourself
• SkypeinSchools
• NewToolsWorkshop: Twitter
• SchoolLibraryBloggers
• SchoolLibraryTweeters
• Skype & Webinar Stuff
• BackChannel and Chat

Social Bookmarking

• Social Bookmarking
• Diigo
• Diigo Educators' Upgrade
• Diigo Teacher-Librarians Group
• Del.icio.us

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List #3 New Rules for Modern Practice

What is 2.0?
Learning more
AASL Smackdown
NECC Library Tools Smackdown
Web 2.0 Meets the Standards (ALA Session)
NewToolsWorkshop

Eisenberg-School Libraries -Crisis-Nov 2009.pdf

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